I need to give a thorough check to my status properly, it's been a while since I've done it.

I have to crack the problem of distributing Kundalini and Shakti simultaneously through my vessels. I needed some advice from Saiyan.

Finding him in one of the tables, sitting far away from me, I matched my time with his to leave the hall, breaking the order of emptying seats. Some people gave me "what is he doing" looks, but I was hungry for clues.

Maybe finding the actual answer itself was part of the training. But a little clue might help in quickening the process.

"Look at you! So eager to learn what she said." Saiyan said with a teasing smile.

"Oh, there was that too. I had a different question, actually."

"Unfortunately, she said that it was fine. She didn't mind what you said. No need to apologize directly." Saiyan recalled the news, giving me a sympathetic look.

"Seriously, bro? What's that look for? It works better for me, actually. There is no need to waste time thinking about how to frame sentences for the apology. If she's cool with it, I don't need to burden myself with unnecessary worries."

He gave me a suspicious side-eye with a slight disappointment. "What other question did you have then?"

"I was just doing it for the peace of my mind. But on a different note, tell me whatever is allowed to share regarding circulating the Kundalini to increase the conductivity. I'm not able to consciously make the energy flow through the vessels in a way I want. I'm using the skills but the vessels aren't getting faster in carrying Kundalini. Also, you're absorbing Shakti and circulating Kundalini through the same vessels, right? So we can't do both at the same time, right?"

"That was actually a good question. One of the many we had asked the senior sages when we started out." Saiyan said with an apologetic smile. "We are supposed to figure out all this by ourselves. Apparently, this training will create the differences within the structure of the vessels between two individuals. Not everybody has a similar internal structure of Kalpa's sap vessels. The sages refused to give us a set way as it would only bind us to a pre-existing method, leaving no leeway for evolution or innovation. So try different things out. What works for you or me won't work for others and vice versa."

"Well then, thanks for the tip. You might feel that it wasn't helpful,, but your talk about flexibility immediately fired up my brain. I'll try some things. See you at dinner." I said, and we separated again for the day.

There was this idea that suddenly came to my mind from Saiyan's words. I couldn't wait to try it out.

Hurrying back to my cave, I sat a bit away from the Shakti Rekha. It wasn't time yet. I needed to rearrange my vessels in a way that suited best for me.

Watching the wardens perform Charm Creation also gave me this idea.

I also needed Panna's sap for this to work. So without her, again, this idea won't come to fruition.

"If you can accomplish whatever you have planned out, it will be crazy. Let's try once and see what happens." Panna supported me positively.

"Okay, let's go. Hopefully, I can do it better this time since I can focus, unlike last time when my mind was in shambles, being unable to persevere the intensity of Shakti. I can change the location of your sap in my body, right?" I confirmed with her.

"I'm not sure, atleast you won't die if you try, so feel free." she replied back. "If things go south, I'll take the reins."

"Yeah, thanks." I said and started focusing to make numerous mini hands inside my body this time.

I heard from my brother one day, who was studying biology a few years ago, that we have two types of blood vessels, one for good blood and the other for the blood containing impurities gathered from different parts of the body.

I will learn about it in detail after some years, but this will be enough context to move forward.

The sap vessels were only a few dozen in number before, but now I needed more as their functionalities will be divided.

Imagining two mini ethereal hands stripping the sap vessels into thinner and smaller ones, as if tearing away thin strips from a piece of paper, I gradually increased the number of sap vessels.

They weren't budging before, but after Panna advised me to simply ask them gently, the vessels complied. Now, there were hundreds of thin snakes floating inside my body, wondering where to go and waiting for me to lead them properly.

I slowly moved the mass of Panna's sap from my hand to the place right above where my muladhara chakra was. What I realised from before was: The Kundalini flowing through Panna's sap can be controlled by both me and her.

If I'm too focused on something, Panna can help me with the automatic activation of skills.

Both Panna's sap and my chakra points awakened using Kalpa's sap will be responsible for holding kundalini, which theoretically should allow me to store twice the amount compared to others.

Since Panna's sap within me was very small in amount, it was best to use it as a small Auxiliary chakra point instead of making vessels from it.

I took a little less than half of the snakes inside me, made them bite my inner skin at newer places to cover as much surface area as possible, and joined their tails to the main root chakra point.

After that, whatever less than half amount I kept aside, was separated into smaller length pieces, which connected my auxiliary chakra to the root chakra.

This part was hard, working with really thin and small vessels. I had to focus quite a bit as if I was threading a needle. The other half went around, traveling within my body and returning back to the auxiliary chakra point. A Kundalini circulation network.

The setup was now complete. I shifted closer to the Shakti Rekha and started feeding my intake vessels.

With a sudden jolt of excruciating pain, I fell back, retreating away from it.

"No, no, no.... the amount of Shakti was too much for my now thin vessels to handle." I started panicking.

Was it a wrong approach??

I probed into my body and found torn-away pieces of sap vessels floating around in my body. A feeling of horror clutched my heart...will I not be able to absorb Shakti again??

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I was too impertinent, not thinking about this simple thing ahead. I just assumed the sap vessels were almighty.

"Calm down!" Panna's voice was hard and definite. "It will take some time, but you need to make the smaller snakes bite the tails of the others to create bigger snakes, leaving a few that will be attached to your skin. Don't panic and restart it at once. Everything is fine!!"

Yes, I needed to rejoin them. This time, I'll join three snakes to make the vessels thicker. I'll end up with a lesser amount of Shakti absorption vessels but it's fine.

Concentrate. Concentrate.

Taking a deep breath, I again started the excruciatingly long process of making the vessels longer and thicker.

I heard the bells for dinner but skipped it.

I haven't used any Prana points yet, so I'll handle a little hunger. The setup was complete after who knew how many hours. My clothes were drenched in sweat, making me wonder why I didn't go naked beforehand.

I was so excited with my idea that I forgot to take care of even the little things. How careless can I even be?

I was honestly disappointed with myself, losing so much time over nothing. I should have considered a trial run with a single intake vessel, making it thinner slowly to see its breaking point.

Then I should have applied it on to the other ones. Just a simple solution, but it totally skipped my mind.

"I didn't imagine the consequences properly before taking the path." I still have a lot to do and so much more to learn.

"Let's try again." I again sat over the Shakti Rekha, letting the energy carried by it enter my body.

Please don't break.

I had already tried out once with three snakes, hopefully it'll apply to others too.

This time, about a dozen more broke away, but it was still successful. I made six vessels, joining together pairs of broken vessels from the dozen that were broken away and reattached them to the outside.

A few vessels broke away from a different area next, yet I kept repeating the cycle. By now, I could definitely feel both my chakra points getting filled up slowly.

The auxiliary chakra point made from Panna's sap won't be able to filter kundalini from Shakti, being different from a Chakra anatomically, so as soon as some of it was filtered by the Root Chakra, she intervened and started sucking up kundalini from it.

Once it was filled up, I overflowed the distribution vessels.

And then, the root chakra was left to do what it was meant for, storing and creating kundalini while filtering out Shakti.

Now, we have to try it out while simultaneously activating multiple skills.

I activated both The Field of Protection and Recovery skills, got naked, and started abusing myself. I realized that whenever the mouths of the intake vessels were wounded, they stopped taking in Shakti and retreated into the body, waiting until they recovered.

Which places are least likely to get injured during a fight? I gave the intake vessels new positions over my body.

It ranged from the armpits to my inner thighs, places that were really personal.

If someone ever scanned my vessels, they would label me as a pervert.

There was one vessel that remained default throughout all the trials and tribulations of my training. It wouldn't budge no matter what. It connected my main chakra to the outside world through the little finger of my left hand.

There must be some reason, but I had no clue about going deeper into the topic.

This time, it took much longer than my earlier iteration to deplete both my chakra points while using the skills.

I was concentrating on absorbing shakti, while Panna was responsible for transferring filtered kundalini from the main to the auxiliary, as well as activating my skills.

We exchanged roles after some time but realized she couldn't force the main chakra to act as she wanted.

So, she was given the job of only making sure that the auxiliary one kept feeding itself from the root chakra.

Taking care of two things at once was tough but somehow manageable. I would often stop taking Shakti or deactivate my skills subconsciously, being unable to concentrate.

Even though my intake vessels kept growing thicker gradually, the increase in conductivity of my distribution vessels increased at a snail's pace.

But to make me satisfied enough, the green light of The Field of Protection Skill grew in intensity within hours.

Thinking that I didn't even need to convert my Prana because of the efficient system, I decided to activate wood Flesh all over my body to use up the energy faster.

Wood Flesh, I found out, grew stronger the more kundalini I fed. At Max capacity, it burned through whatever was left within five minutes.

I converted 13 points of Prana into Kundalini over the next three hours, in tandem with Shakti intake and filtering, whenever the filtration process of Root chakra couldn't keep up with the energy expenses.

After my Prana points reached 1, I started the chakra-filling method again without expending any of it instantly.

It was inorder to judge how long field of protection, recovery and wood flesh could be used together when I start with a full capacity. I was surprised with the results.

Only expecting it to work for ten or fifteen minutes, I was shocked when it crossed twenty-five minutes.

Did I unknowingly come up with a really efficient system? But all this is possible only when I'm standing over a Shakti Rekha. From common sense, it's unlikely that we will have battles right over one.

I decided to finally take a nap, all naked still, until I heard the bells for breakfast. It felt a drag to wear my clothes again.

Now I realized why all the sadhus in the Himalayas moved around naked.

There was something liberating in donning my birthday suit, but...now I'm embarrassed by even thinking about it.

Am I starting to get really weird? I wondered while dressing up and reached the pool to wash my face in the cold water.

I skipped a step as I saw the girl from yesterday, Somi, sitting with her bare feet paddling in the water.

Remembering my dream, I cursed my stupid hormones. Out of all the dreams I could remember, why was this one the most vivid?

I nodded as our eyes met for a millisecond while I knelt down to slap the cool water over my face.

Should I apologize? She said there's no need, right?

I'll just go back for breakfast since my stomach is killing me with hunger. I didn't feel the pressure yet since I had skipped meals yesterday.

I'll try sitting in the stalls for a while after breakfast.

As I started walking away, I heard her voice, "I thought you wanted to apologize?"

"And I thought you were cool with it."

"I thought I was, but I suddenly got curious when thinking about it after training. I came here getting a gut feeling that I would come across you like yesterday. Just a bonus over my self-reflection time."

I stepped back to where I was kneeling down and also sat with my legs dipped into the water.

"Honestly, I was on my way to relieve myself. The longer one. And you stopped me suddenly, accusing me of something I wasn't. I probably also got angry that my body features in the dark made you think I was an Asura. That probably hit me the most. Did you think I was a goblin or something? So yeah, both the feelings of irritation derived from holding something back and the insult made me use harsh words unnecessarily." I was surprised at the flow of words coming out of me, one after another.

This was unlike me.

"I totally ignored the hard work you might have put in, assuming you were simply talented just because you were one of the chosen students. Ah, also, the fact that you could already materialize your kundalini made me jealous. That was all I guess. So yeah, I'm sorry for acting like that."

"That was a believable answer. And a genuine apology. I will accept it. But why are you jealous? You aren't lagging behind at all."

"You can see my current condition? Do people also have Skills like that? This is so unfair."

She chuckled brightly. "It's not a power. You have activated your chakra but haven't learned to hide it properly yet. Yesterday, it was only like a little thin film covering your body. But a fierce red fire is burning around you now. People who already have awakened their chakra will easily notice it. You are continuously circulating your kundalini within your vessels, right? You have to stop doing that. Try it."

I closed my eyes and concentrated. In semi-manual mode with Panna helping me a little bit, I was the one responsible for the kundalini movement within the distribution vessels.

I gently willed the kundalini to stop wherever they were and stay stagnant inside the vessels.

It hated to be bound like that, but Kundalini inherently was better at listening than Shakti.

It slowed down and stopped in its tracks.

I filled my intake vessels with Shakti to the brim to make sure more of it couldn't enter, stagnating the intake vessels, too.

It was quite easy to do, but without the information, you wouldn't even think about doing it.

"Thanks for the tip," I said, getting up.

It's been a few minutes since the breakfast bells rang. I needed to recover my Prana points, too, so skipping it wasn't an option.

"Let's go." she, too, stood up from her position.

"It will be better if you go first. I don't want to put a target on my back by entering late together." I said and waited for her to leave.

I heard a slight giggle as she disappeared into the jungle. She was as fast as a gazelle.